Tag: "consequences" at medical news

...history, incidence and risk factors? What are the consequences and public health burden of chronic insomnia? What treatments, alone or in combination, are used for the management of chronic insomnia? What is the evidence regarding the safety, efficacy and effectiveness of these treatments? McCall will present ...

... aggressive measures to arrest or even prevent the consequences of febrile seizures in children at risk of temporal lobe epilepsy. An important development in recent years is the discovery that some people with epilepsy have subtle brain malformations that arose during the early development of the brain. Carmant ...

...ons. Though not itself directed at a cure for the consequences of spinal cord injury, the project will accelerate progress of such research because it will permit scientists to navigate seamlessly between the rat and human spinal cords to test hypotheses inspired by human considerations and relate data from expe...

...rtionate numbers becoming infected, and the social consequences of so many young mothers dying and leaving behind children who may also be infected as well as orphaned. He also points out that medical research suggests hormonal and developmental factors place young women at greater risk than men for contracting ...

...infection acquired earlier in life with functional consequences in old age. Further data showed that women who had both the viral infection and high levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker of inflammatory response, were even more likely to be frail than those who had either alone. "It is not clear why, with age,...

...l Health Perspectives. Public health and economic consequences of methyl mercury toxicity to the developing brain. Trasande, Landrigan and Schecter). The loss of intelligence continues throughout the lifetimes of exposed children. If not addressed, the silent but significant public health threat associat...

..., Germany reviewed what is known about the causes, consequences and clinical implications of alcohol-related brain shrinkage. Proceedings are published in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research . "The outer layer of brain, also called the cerebral cortex or gray matter, controls most com...

...vious hazards like extreme sports and alcohol. The consequences of their injuries were substantial with about 40 per cent of women requiring surgery and ten per cent staying in hospital for more than a week. "Treating pregnant women who sustain major trauma is very worrisome for both the patient, family, and heal...

... same time, other symptoms may be one of number of consequences of restricted foetal growth." Dr Davies and his te...ins of PCOS, he concluded. "There are reproductive consequences of metabolic programming events that occur during foetal development; we may need to look further ba...

...izabeth G. Nabel. "As a physician, I have seen the consequences of poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes. These results show many people and their families can be spared that devastation." The ALLHAT blood pressure study was a randomized, double-blind trial involving 42,418 participants with high blood pres...

...mpensation for the environmental and public health consequences of conflict between nations. The UNCC evaluated the claims, held hearings last September, and announced its compensation decision this week. HSPH's investigation was led by Dr. John Evans, senior lecturer on environmental science in the Department ...

...ng AEDs not stop them abruptly until the risks and consequences are better known." Patients with epilepsy have traditionally been cautioned against suddenly halting drug treatment because abrupt withdrawal could trigger the resumption of seizures. In recent years, however, AEDs have been prescribed for many oth...

...lses despite severe personal, family or vocational consequences The researchers describe the clinical features of 11 patients. Pathological gambling developed in seven of these 11 patients within one to three months of either reaching the maintenance dose, or increasing their dose of a dopamine agonist, the resea...

...eleased a report detailing the benefits, costs and consequences of this option. National research demonstrates that an increase in the number of nurses is associated with fewer deaths, shorter hospital stays, and lower rates of complications such as pneumonia, shock, and cardiac arrest. Despite this fact, there ...

...etection until severe medical, legal and/or social consequences occur. Symposium speakers at the October 2004 Congress for the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism in Mannheim, Germany discussed emerging approaches to early detection of alcohol abuse and/or dependence. Proceedings are pub...

... employers. Such policies will reduce the economic consequences of employees and for employers, reduce absenteeism and turnover, and increase productivity. Walker's project was part of a $2.3 million major international collaborative research initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci...

...ral anxieties over the unintended and dehumanizing consequences of technology; the disempowerment and loss of autonomy through the machinations of complex expert systems; and a political project of asserting a subjugated knowledge (midwifery) over the authoritative knowledge of the medical establishment (thereby ...

...curate story--they don't worry, he says, about the consequences of the story once it is published. "But that approach may result in shoddy journalism and potential harm to the public," says Schwitzer. "I assert that it isn't sufficient to be accurate and clear when covering health news. Journalists have a re...

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